Jeanne Lee
How to Bring Up Hospice and Reframe Hope:
Clinical Pearls for Your Practice
Keeping Burnout at Bay:
Strategies for Honing Resiliency
What Does “Guarded Prognosis” Mean?
Patient-Centered Communication Tips for End of Life
Who’s Making the Decisions?
Assessing Capacity and Understanding the Medical Power of Attorney
Seeing a patient whom we suspect is declining can be difficult, especially when we are unsure how we can “do more” for our patient. Sometimes “doing more” is having meaningful conversations about prognosis, hopes, and hospice. What prevents us from initiating these conversations?
Well...we want to relieve distress, not inadvertently cause more.
Practicing palliative care physician and former hospitalist Dr. Jeanne Lee shares when and how to bring up hospice while reframing hope. Participants will learn clinical pearls they can immediately apply to their practice.
Keeping Burnout at Bay:
Strategies for Honing Resiliency
More and more healthcare professionals are concerned about their work lives leading to burnout, specifically apathy, depersonalization, and demoralization. Many of us entered careers in healthcare with a goal to serve patients, only to exhaust ourselves battling external factors limiting our abilities to optimally serve.
So what can we as individuals do to hone our internal resiliency skills against burnout and ultimately continue to serve our patients?
Palliative care physician and former hospitalist Dr. Jeanne Lee shares mindset changes that participants can apply to increase resiliency skills and keep burnout at bay.
What Does “Guarded Prognosis” Mean?
Patient-Centered Communication Tips for End of Life
Sometimes, despite our best attempts to keep family updated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or the hospital, a wide gulf seems to remain between family’s understanding and clinicians’ understanding of the severity of a patient’s medical condition.
How can we effectively and compassionately help family members understand, process, and move forward with shared decision making?
Practicing palliative care physician and former hospitalist Dr. Jeanne Lee uses relevant scenarios to explain why clinician-patient/family disconnect occurs and provides practical tips for effective and compassionate communication regarding end of life in the ICU or the hospital.
Who’s Making the Decisions?
Assessing Capacity and Understanding the Medical Power of Attorney
In today’s healthcare system, even if we are not entirely sure a patient has medical decision making capacity, we tend to default to disease directed, life prolonging therapies. Sometimes, however, we pause, especially if it is not clear that a patient declining life prolonging therapies has capacity to make this decision. Or we may have reservations that a patient choosing comfort focus fully understands the significance of this path.
Who, then, makes the medical decisions? And how should we proceed forward?
Practicing palliative care physician and former hospitalist Dr. Jeanne Lee uses relevant scenarios to illustrate the importance of determining the surrogate decision maker early on in a patient’s healthcare journey, as well as assess if a patient even has the capacity to do so.
How to Bring Up Hospice and Reframe Hope:
Clinical Pearls for Your Practice